Saint-Saens alive! It’s cello heaven

Two members of the audience collapsed in the first half of last night’s BBC Prom concert. The air-conditioning at the Royal Albert Hall was on full-blast but the atmosphere in the pit was choking. And […]

Message received: On January 17, Mary O’Reilly, who was the first violinist in our orchestra from 1988 to 2003, died. Mary O’Reilly was born in Irvington, New Jersey, and her musical journey took her to […]

The general director of the Orchestre philharmonique du Québec, Jean-Marc Léveillé, left the organisation this month, citing ‘irreconcilable divergences between the general management and the artistic director, Alexandre Da Costa’. One of Léveillé’s supporters speaks […]